xiv, 317 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : 24 cm

Marianne Elliott has updated the book and commissioned new essays to ensure that this vital resource for students, scholars, politicians and the interested general reader continues to illuminate the peace process through the words of some of its pivotal figures

Previous edition: 2002

"The bulk of the essays in this book are derieved from the series of Peace Lectures given at Liverpool's Institute of Irish Studies between 1996 and 2000"--Back cover

Includes bibliographical references and index

Achieving transformational change / Sir George Quigley -- The resolution of armed conflict: internationalization and its lessons, particularly in Northern Ireland / Lord David Owen -- Some reflections on successful negotiation in South Africa / Frederik Van Zyl Slabbert -- The secrets of the Oslo channels: lessons from Norwegian peace facilitation in the Middle East, Central America and the Balkans / Jan Egeland -- The awakening: Irish-America's key role in the Irish peace process / Niall O'Dowd -- 'Give us another MacBride campaign': an Irish-American contribution to peaceful change in Northern Ireland / Kevin McNamara -- Towards peace in Northern Ireland / Senator George Mitchell -- Neither Orange march nor Irish jig: finding compromise in Northern Ireland / Senator Maurice Hayes -- Mountain-climbing Irish-style: the hidden challenges of the peace process / Martin Mansergh -- The Good Friday agreement -- a vision for a new order in Northern Ireland / Peter Mandelson -- Hillsborough to Belfast: is it the final lap? / Sir David Goodall -- Defining republicanism: shifting discourses of new nationalism and post-republicanism / Kevin Bean -- Conflict, memory and reconciliation / Paul Arthur -- Keeping going: beyond Good Friday / Harvey Cox -- Religion and identity in Northern Ireland / Marianne Elliott -- Getting to know the 'other': inter-church groups and peace-building in Northern Ireland / Maria Power -- Enduring problems: the Belfast agreement and a disagreed Belfast / Peter Shirlow and Colin Coulter -- Appendices: key recommendations of -- 1. The Sunningdale agreement (December 1973) -- 2. The Anglo-Irish (Hillsborough) agreement (November 1985) -- 3. The Opsahl commission (June 1993) -- 4. The Downing Street joint declaration (December 1993) -- 5. The framework document (1995) -- 6. The Good Friday (Belfast) agreement (April 1998) -- 7. The report of the Northern Ireland victims commission (Sir Kenneth Bloomfield, 1998) -- 8. The Patten Report -- 9. Review of the Parades commission (Sir George Quigley, Sept. 2002), extracts

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